We're making some TV commercials for one of our clients this week. Making a TV commercial is like nothing else I've ever done. It's tiring, exhilirating, daunting, fun and maddening. What's most amazing about the whole thing is that you can shoot the foyer of a home where there is a staircase going up, then turn around and shoot the dining room like it's the upstairs, then turn around again and shoot the kitchen counter like it's the mailroom of the office you're shooting in the next day.

Oh, and don't forget you can shoot a high school office to look like a hospital waiting room and then go outside onto the football field so you can shoot a football field. However, you only have three players and a coach and that's supposed to (and does) look like a full team.

Today is Friday and Fridays are always good.They come when you least expect them.Sure you know they're always at the end of a workweek.Whether good or bad or great or something else altogether.But you know how some Thursdays seem like Mondays and how you canwake up on a Wednesday, think it's Saturday, realize it's Wednesday andthen almost cry because it's not Saturday? (I know you know.)

But today is Friday and you know Fridays are good becauseat the end of the day a beer or a ballgame or a dog or a friendor a loved one or a child or a mom or a dad or a movie or a sittingon some deck or a novel or a video game or a something-else-you've-been-waiting-all-week-for

Truth is, I haven't had that much to write. Here, I mean. I've been terribly busy for the past just about half year writing on the professional side of the fence. Advertising is one of those things that can be great one day and shite the next.

But I think that's the case for pretty much anybody's job.

Either way, I plan to get more of my thoughts down here. But I can't make any promises.

Listening to Marillion right now. Holy smokes, you'd think it was 1986 all over again. But thank God it's not.

"Linus and Lucy" by the Vince Guaraldi TripWhen Frosty says "Happy birthday!"Barbeque/Brothers by The Frogtown Hollow Juibiee JugBandAn official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells timeHoney Baked Ham™Christmas MicrobrewsNBA 07 for XBOX 360Christmas and New Year's PartiesSaying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays"Dressing the kids up in matching Christmas jammiesTrying to get to sleep on Christmas EveSetting cookies and milk out for SantaSanta ClausThe Abominable Snow Monster a.k.a. The BumbleYukon CorneliusThe Charley In The BoxThe South Park Christmas Card where Jesus and Santa get in a Kung Fu fight."Dude, don't say pigfucker in front of Jesus."The fact that Rudolph was created by advertising copywriter Robert L. May in 1939The fact that Montgomery & Ward donated the trademark to him in 1947The fact that I will be spending this Christmas with Sarah, Sean, Nick all the McTighes and all the Bucks.Happy Christmas War is Over (If you want it)Peace.

Yesterday was an historic event in the U.S.A. and I'm proud of all of you who voted for change.

What happened reminded me of this:

Hey, do you know about the U.S.A.?Do you know about the government?Can you tell me about the Constitution?Hey, learn about the U.S.A.

In 1787 I'm toldOur founding fathers did agreeTo write a list of principlesFor keepin' people free.

The U.S.A. was just startin' out.A whole brand-new country.And so our people spelled it outThe things that we should be.

And they put those principles down onpaper and called it the Constitution, andit's been helping us run our country eversince then. The first part of theConstitution is called the preamble and tellswhat those founding fathers set out to do.

We the peopleIn order to form a more perfect union,Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,Provide for the common defense,Promote the general welfare andSecure the blessings of libertyTo ourselves and our posterityDo ordain and establish this Constitutionfor the United States of America.

In 1787 I'm toldOur founding fathers all sat downAnd wrote a list of principlesThat's known the world around.

The U.S.A. was just starting outA whole brand-new country.And so our people spelled it outThey wanted a land of liberty.And the preamble goes like this:

We the peopleIn order to form a more perfect union,Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,Provide for the common defense,Promote the general welfare andSecure the blessings of libertyTo ourselves and our posterity,Do ordain and establish this Constitutionfor the United States of America.

For the United States of America.

I urge all outgoing Republicans and all incoming Democrats to watch America Rock. They all might learn a little something. (You should watch it too.)